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title: Isaiah 50:1 (JPS 1917) — Thus saith the LORD: Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus saith the LORD: Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, wherewith I have put her away? Who acts: LORD, I, mother. Isaiah 50:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 50:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3

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Thus saith the LORD: Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, wherewith I have put her away?

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**Who acts:** LORD, I, mother · **What happens:** say, be, put away, divorce · **To what, where:** bill, her · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 50:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (LORD, I, mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:ISA:1113
# text = Thus saith the LORD: Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, wherewith I have put her away?
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	divorcement	divorcement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	wherewith	wherewith	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the bill |  |  |  | of your mother's divorcement | tree rules |
| 3 | **put away** | present · perfect | I |  | her *= she* |  |  | away, wherewith *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal |
| 4 | **divorce** |  | your mother |  |  |  |  |  | nom divorcement «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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כֹּ֣ה ׀ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה אֵ֣י זֶ֠ה סֵ֣פֶר כְּרִית֤וּת אִמְּכֶם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר שִׁלַּחְתִּ֔יהָ א֚וֹ מִ֣י מִנּוֹשַׁ֔י אֲשֶׁר־מָכַ֥רְתִּי אֶתְכֶ֖ם ל֑וֹ הֵ֤ן בַּעֲוֺנֹֽתֵיכֶם֙ נִמְכַּרְתֶּ֔ם וּבְפִשְׁעֵיכֶ֖ם שֻׁלְּחָ֥ה אִמְּכֶֽם׃

[Isaiah 50:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.50.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Thus saith the LORD: Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, wherewith I have put her away?**
2. [Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1114/)
3. [Behold, for your iniquities were ye sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1115/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:1113` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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